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August 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 August 2

1. Largest unnamed island?

August 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 August 4

1. Venezuelan parishes map?
2. References to Curran and Farjeon

August 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 August 5

1. Volkstedt porcelain
2. British peers killed in action
3. The Shasu Yahweh inscriptions
4. Blind man playing cards in the 18th century

August 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 August 6

1. Trustworthy sources for learning about race and ethnicity

August 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 August 7

1. List of the most important 19th c. poems in the Dutch language
2. M855A1 and the Hague Conventions of 1899

August 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 August 8

1. Chain of command on a Navy ship
2. Verification help

August 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 August 9

1. Implying something by omission

August 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 August 10

1. C. N. Barham - minister, barrister, hypnotist
2. Lady Beauchamp, the Sailors' Rest, Le Havre.

August 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 August 11

1. Overthrowing the Bolsheviks
2. Multinational states or empires collapsing and millions of co-ethnics being left stranded outside of their respective nation-state?

August 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 August 13

1. Gorsuch Roberts Alito Kavanaugh
2. Choice-of-court clauses in US federal courts
3. Endorsements

August 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 August 14

1. Where was Rochambeau paroled?
2. What does it mean to be "childlike" in a religious context?

August 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 August 19

1. Jean Bottéro on Ebla

August 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 August 21

1. Appealing jury verdict before sentencing not allowed?

August 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 August 25

1. 1967, Can this criminal incidence corroborated?
2. Are these the same people?

August 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 August 26

1. Kish 1924
2. dig: Amenmope's tomb

August 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 August 27

1. What the Maid Saw and The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
2. "Whiter than white cocaine" (or similar) British soldiers song of WW1
3. Prince Radziwill, a Polish officer with the Heavy Brigade

August 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 August 28

1. Flinders Petrie's "Roman Ehnasya"

August 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 August 29

1. At peak US steam railroading, how much coal rail traffic was to sustain the locomotives?
2. Help confirm date of publishing
3. Rabindra Rangshala, Can be ranked amongst largest amphitheatre?